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Abac’s precision platform
How Abac’s pathogen-specific approach could reduce emergence of antibiotic resistance
May 10, 2018 9:31 PM UTC
Abac Therapeutics S.A. is taking a precision approach to treat bacterial infections that could avoid the development of drug resistance that plagues broad-spectrum antibiotics.
The company’s PasNas platform uses phenotypic and in vitro assays to screen chemical libraries and identify pathogen-specific antibiotics for multidrug resistant microbes. According to CSO Domingo Gargallo-Viola, PasNas can identify candidates for any infectious microbial species, regardless of mechanism of action or molecular target, which are determined later in development...